..."inconveniences which thereby doe arise are much more many : " for it is a fit house for an outlawe, a meet bed for a rebel, " and an apt cloke for a theife." There are copious explanations given under each of these heads, one of which I quote in a...

...arranging the hair, which was called the glibbe. These glibbes, according to Spenser, were fit marks for a thief, since, when he wished to disguise himself,...outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes and houses...

...as we learn from Spenser's description, "the ancient dress " was still worn. The mantle was still " a fit' house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and .in apt cloak for a thief." The long matted lockgj called glibbes, were still used for a disguise....

...countervaile the discommoditie ; for the inconveniences which thereby doe arise, are much more many; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a theife. First the out-law being for his many crimes and villanves banished from the townes and houses...

...Elizabeth, Spenser writing from Kilcoleman, urges the abolition of the ancient dress. The mantle he terms " a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief." Spenser might be a good poet, bat if we judge from this paragraph of his penned opinions, he...

..." Dant famuli manibus lymphas, Cereremque caniftris " Expediunt, tonfifquc ferunt mantilia villis." an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thiefe. Firft the out-law being for his many crimes and villanyes banifhed from the townes and houfes of honeft...

...girdle ; and over all the ample frieze cloak, of which Spencer speaks so angrily — " The Irish mantle, a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, an apt cloak for a thief. * * The outlaw being, for his many •rimes and villanies, banished from...

...a thief, since, when he wished to disguise himself, he could either cut it off entirely, or so puH it over his eyes as to render it very hard to recognize...outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes and houses...

...inconveniences which thereby doe arise are much more many : " for it is a fit house for an outlawe, a meet bed for a rebel, " and an apt cloke for a theife." There are copious explanations given under each of these heads, one of which I quote in a...

...the discommodity, for the inconveniences which thereby do arise, are much more many (numerous) ; for it is a fit house for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. First the out-law being for his many crimes and villanies banished from the towns...